Bipul Sinha is an Indian-American entrepreneur and technology executive, best known as the co-founder and CEO of Rubrik, Inc., a cybersecurity and cloud data management company established in 2014. Rubrik specializes in data backup, recovery, and protection solutions, particularly against ransomware attacks and AI resilience, and has achieved unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $4 billion as of recent funding rounds. Under Sinha's leadership, the company has expanded globally, secured major investments from firms like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, and Bain Capital Ventures, and went public in 2024 via an IPO on the NYSE under the ticker RBRK, reporting strong FY2026 Q3 results. Rubrik has grown to over 1,500 employees, serving over 2,500 clients including Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Home Depot, and Estee Lauder. Sinha's strategic focus on zero-trust data security has positioned Rubrik as a key player in enterprise cybersecurity.

Born and raised in poverty in Bihar, India, in towns like Darbhanga, Madhepura, and Dhanbad—where the family lived in a basement without running water after his father's pharmaceutical sales career at Alembic Pharmaceuticals transitioned to failed entrepreneurial ventures—Sinha's father later prioritized his education, enabling attendance at government schools. Motivated to escape poverty, Sinha earned a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, where he later received the Distinguished Alumnus Award, and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School as a Palmer Scholar. He worked briefly at Tata Information Systems and IBM in Bangalore before immigrating to the US in the mid-1990s for a software engineering role at American Megatrends in Atlanta, then spent nine years at Oracle in Silicon Valley, rising to director level in engineering and product management with over 30 patents, gaining financial security. He also gained experience at Juniper Networks before entering venture capital as a founding investor and board member at Blumberg Capital (investing in Nutanix and Hootsuite) and Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners (Nutanix, Pulse News, Bromium, PernixData). From 2010 to 2014, he served as a Managing Director at Intel Capital, leading investments in over 20 startups in cloud computing and big data. In 2014, he left VC to found Rubrik.

Sinha holds several patents in distributed computing. He serves as Board Chairman and Co-Founder of Confluera, invests in Descope, and maintains a Venture Partner role at Lightspeed, with an ownership stake of approximately 5.64% in Rubrik valued at $616 million post-IPO and reported compensation of $140 million. He maintains financial ties with investors like Ravi Mhatre of Lightspeed and Asheem Chandna of Greylock, who backed Rubrik's early rounds. Sinha is recognized in Silicon Valley for his contributions to the Indian tech diaspora, has been involved in mentoring startups, and describes himself as a 'maximal thinker,' sharing his story in podcasts like WSJ and Masters of Scale. As CEO, he continues to drive innovation in data resilience amid evolving cyber threats, with no major public controversies or legal issues documented in his professional record.